Racek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gull
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɹəsɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Racek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- SKSlovakia1 in 12K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 23K
- HRCroatia1 in 223K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
473 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Raček in SK Slovakia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)gull
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Racek counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 473 | 1 in 23K | 473 | Racek | 34 |
| SK Slovakia | #800 | 463 | 1 in 12K | 463 | Raček | 28 |
| US United States | — | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 278 | Racek | 21 |
| PL Poland | — | 79 | 1 in 485K | 42 | Racek | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Racek | 5 |
| HR Croatia | — | 19 | 1 in 223K | 19 | — | — |
473 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Racek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Rachek or Ratsek.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karel Racekb. 1871CZsupply ministry official in Prague (1871-??)
- František Racekb. 1872CZofficial of a provincial government in Brno, Czechia (1872-1957)
- Jan Racekb. 1886CZCzech legionary and signal corps officer (1886-1969)
- Jan Racekb. 1905CZCzech music researcher and pedague
- Albrecht Adalbert Racekb. 1909AUCzech zoologist
- Ivan Racekb. 1924CZCzech sculptor
- Miloslav Racekb. 1925CZCzech archeologist, estheticist, philosopher, historian, art historian and university educator (1925–1980)
- Ilja Racekb. 1930CZCzech dubbing actor and actor (1930–2018)
- Ilja Racekb. 1950CZCzech director, politician and cultural manager (born 1950)
- Jiří Racekb. 1976CZCzech actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 473 | #3,231 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 471 | #1,793 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 471 | #3,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 278 | #70,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 276 | #75,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 273 | #67,522 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 85 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #56,682 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #61,153 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Racek mean, and where does it come from?
- gull Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Racek?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəsɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Racek have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 473 people named Racek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled racek.
- Where is Racek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Racek is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Racek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 473 people named Racek, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Racek compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Racek is the 800th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Racek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/racekThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Racek” — the 800th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.